Los Angeles daily herald., 1887-03-21
MI e DICA INH A l. AT 1 q
Combined with Constitutional Remedies.

OUR TREATMENT OF THE DISEASES
~ of the respiratory passages consists in
The employment of Medical Inhalation for
its dir ect effects on the diseased organs;
and, ut the same time, adopting such ny
gieIic measures and administering such
medicines by the stomach as will most ef-
fectualiy purify the blood. give tone to
the nervous system, aud bald up and
strengthen the general constitution. ln
other words, we employ combined local
and general treatment.
What is Medicaal Inhalation? Before
stating briefly what Medical inhalation
is, we PROPOSE in as few words as posi- bic,
to state clearly what 1t is not.
Medical Inhalation Is not cure-all. q
nostrum, or a panacea. 1t IL not specific
rem edy for any disease. 1t is not qhack
medicine, or advertised to cure any or all
the ills that flesh is heir to, an intended to
fill the pockets of its proprietors It Is no,
a talisman, whose possession insures health
to its possessor without the intervention of
sense or judgment. Medical Inhalation is
none of these things.
Medical Inhalatlon Is simply a1d solely a
method of taking medicines by inhaiing OF
breathing them into the lungs instead OF
swallowing them into the stomach. BY IN.
halation, the proper medicines are applied
directly to the seat OF the disease, In the
nose, throat or lungs; and 1t is clear TO
every reasoning .person now pecullariy aP:
plicablc limitation is i'll the dlsorders OF
burned the surface of the hody, or wounded
any limb or member, you do not swallow
the remedy intended to heal the disor-
ganized tissue On the contrary, you apply
It directly to the seat OF the Wouno OF IA ~
tarih of the nasal pas es or throat, or al,
fiicted wi h ulceratiou of the lungs, should
you rely on medicines taken lnto the
stomach?
L. odiQs tn the seat OF The
disease, but 1t applies the remedy IN the
gaseous or yaporOus form, in which form,
Is is we'll known, medicines act most power.
fully. How much greater, for example. Is
inhaled or breathed, than many times the
quantity when swallowed into the stomach
The same is true of chlorine, OF iodine. ana
of many other substances by lnhaiatlon
the medicine is not poured INTO the stomacn
and thence sent wandering through the
system in search of malady which may pc
mainly or entirely local one; but by this
method the proper remedy Is applled ol-
rectly to the diseased organ. VINO, after
studying the anotomy OF the lungs can
the air-tubes and air-cells. the direc; app1'
cation of the healing medicine by irhala.
ton to the aisea sed parts, Is the correct and
rational method of treatment? who, on
the other hand, can be so irrational as to
believe that the proper and direct way to
reach the diseased surfaces of the air
passages in this case. is by the way of the
stomach? Ply siolOgy teaches us that the
membrane. or skin, lining tne ar passages
slightly modified form of the same structure
as that which covers the external surface
of the body. Why, then, should local treat
ment he proper and necessary for infiam'
nations, COMPOSITIONS and ulcerat1ons OF the
one and not be equally SO in the case OF the
other?
diseases of the nose. throat ana lungs, de-
monstrates, beyond all question, that the
true scientific treatment OF these diseases IS
that treatment which com5ines the local
effects of medical iphaiation with the c0fi-
stiuutiOnsl effects OF systematic feheoles,
given in the usual. ,%@y Dy the slIalscn.
Oae OF tota Methods Tust be adopted as
fhe eli, cum.tances demand, aud such RENE
dies must be employed rs. the exper ence
nnd Judgment of the physician have proved
to be proper in each particular case
rIeaicaI IAdyorates 0f Nm inhalation.
pbys;cians who were educated twenty
wars AGO or more, and who have not kept
lin with the times in the advance IN meal
ca! science, have very Little tuea OF the great
importsnce all leading writer's now give 70
Medical Inhalation IN sne y extent Il Is his
true that no patient should 1ntrlst his case
| to auy physictan who Is not wen prepared
and Thoroughly equipped WIN everythihg
necessary for the administering, oI tne
nroper remedies by the method OF lnhala-
| tion. ,,ho,,
The numerous cures effected by inhala.
lation In cases seemingly past all help, ana
| tbe uniform success attending lts use III
diseases of the respiratory otsahs, LGnue,s y
Mt once spSly himself TO gain practical
knowiedge 0f the Inhalation, or, II that is
NOT p0ssible, he is at least bound 10 oecllne
| to treat such cases. .,.,. =.
Among the most emansnI nad piigsbs, ~ tbe vs,ne Ua
of Oh MsSicai Inhalation in these diseases are
Tue Tbe ,olc celebsfated DR.. Burion saun ierson
DR.. In Roche, OF the Paris Academy OF
Medicine: Dr.. Frederiea namglrsua sgIIrrmaeii: % Sir
arc,hibaid Dickson, OF Edinburgh, Scotland
DR. Eichler, DR.. Cameron, Dr. Gurdon 5uGk'
Prof. Albert Lehert the celepran5eo u
Hughlings Jackson the veneraD.e rr. hoD,
ert Dickinson; proi; ,acas nnier1eG pr g. p Waod.
p;ebard THOMPSON, Or. K. s Carpenter,
nrs Austie. Ball, Fuller, Lancereaux,
Krsuss, Huguenie, Heller, Orth' Corrlgan,
Fenwick and many sinasa others, excen,ion every
medical authority OF eminence recognizes
the wonderful potency OF this new metnoo
sud ,he coming generation OF physician.
are certain to be thorouGnly & euuGaueii ,shvei
| therein. Az DIGtcnb ~ 10 .oANy -
o;a,,s hare and there who have made "Dis
eases eases Of Respiration" life study IN + tai arf
fitted in way to employ tine " tbe
resources of Medical lnhaiation ia 'he cur'
of these diseases.
The Durability of consumption
For five years the celebrated DR.. ]. H
parnot waa pathologist to the yal In
Urinary 81 EdnbuTgh and ns makes ,a sls sbe efSS al
work on "Consump'ion "o 'S -o-
| Ioxy;no stdtemeut:
'owiTs %pnsring this period I made upwards O
diseasss, an and
oSyna,antly meeting with cases in which
ton ionna S,a cavities in the lungs from consump
ton which had ,sn1s sySsntSy Se hsslea asaS Of up
'h;aot Nature did not seem to have beei
suceessfui in restoring the wasted Jung
ne ss esEiss Ssasse aasd
tho tho spnh;ect lived for years, with diminished
lung Inn power it is true, but otherwise in goo'
health"